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UNITED STATES PATENT omen.

EDWARD S. SKEEL, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,366, dated April18, 1876; application filed a January 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. SKEEL, of Meadville, in the county ofCrawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented. a new and valuableImprovement in Folding Olothesltack; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,makinga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a top-plan view, andFig. 2 of a bottomplan view, of my clothes-rack. Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional view of the same, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views thereof.is

This invention has relation to improvements in folding clothes-racks,adapted either for airing or drying clothes or goods; and it consists inthe arrangement and novel construction of radial sockets, which arecapable of being detached from the supportingstaff, and of being foldedaround the same, whereby means are provided for removing the arms orsockets when necessary, and thus adapting inyimproved drying-frame to beplaced in a corner of a room, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a preferablycylindrical stafl' or upright, t0 the lower end of which is securedaquadru 'fly-strapped hinge, B, to which are rigidly attached arms 0,flat on their under sides, which are designed to afford a base for thesupporting-staff A. Arms 0 are preferably of wood; and when they areswung outward into the position shown in Fig. 3 their heels will abutagainst the lower end of the said staff, and they will thus be heldagainst further outward vibration than what would be required to placethem at right angles to the said staff, or nearly so. means afoldin gbase will be constituted,w11ich, together with a folding drying-frame,hereinafter explained, will form a drier capable of being folded into acompact form, either for transportation or for being stowed away in acorner or closet. D represents a metallic collar of suitable strength,which is passed over staff A, and is adjustably secured at any de- Bythis G. This socket is provided with an angular heel, d, which isreceived in a curved recess,

6, out in the body of collar 1), which serves to hold the said-socketsagainst lateral vibration, A

and yet allows them free upward vertical vibration. The toe part ofsocket F is designed -to abut against the cylindrical partn of collar D,and will, in practice, be provided with a calk or projection, f, which,bearing against the said cylindrical part of the said collar,

will hold the socket s in a horizontal position, at right angles, ornearly so, to the staff. To detach the sockets from the collar, drawarms G outward. so as to pull the journals of the sockets outward intothe lower end of curved notches b, when the heel of the socket will bedisengaged from the recess between lugs a, and, by being raised, will belifted out of their bearings, and be thus detached from the collar.These arms being detachable, a sufficient number may be removed, and thedevice set in a corner of a room, where space is wanting, and yet asufficient number of arms retained to receive a considerable quantity ofmaterial to be dried. When the arms are thrown up into a verticalposition the heeld of the socket will engage deeply in recesses e oncollar D, and will thus be prevented from being detached from the saidcollar, and falling free therefrom.

In practice I shall employ two or more dryingframes in connection withasingle staff, should it prove desirable. The ends of arms -G will beprovidedwith an eyebolt, I, through V which will be passed a cord,H, theobject of end of staffA with a ring-bolt, B, so that when desirable thefolded apparatus may be hung up out of the Way.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is-

l. The collar D, having spaced lugs a, with curved notches b, acylindrical part, n,-and a recess between the lugs in the saidcylindrical part, in combination with the boot-shaped socket F, havingjournals 0, an angular heel, d, and a calk, f, substantially asspecified.

2. In combination with the collar D, the vertically-vibratory anddetachable sockets F, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD S. SKEEL. Witnesses:

W. A. SELBY, W. N. LooKWooD.

